Steve Fahl, named Stephen Larry Fahl upon being adopted, is an American actor, voice actor, and writer. He grew up in Fairfax, Virginia and Neosho village, Wisconsin. His biological father was a U.S. Marine working at the Fairfax-based Central Intelligence Agency, and his biological mother was the secretary of Senator Robert Byrd. His maternal grandparents were Irish, German, Polish and Czech, and his father was of Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and German descent.Fahl attended two Virginia high schools due to his adoptive parents’ divorce: Chantilly High School and T.C. Williams High School, from which he graduated. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps as a radioman for artillery and infantry, and as a base-guard for Military Police, he majored in International Business, eventually completing his digital cinema production and screenwriting B.A. in Summer 2016 at University of Hawaii.Fahl got his start in movie and TV production while working as a day-player, voice actor, and commercial model in ads, TV, and movies filmed by Hollywood, French, Russian, UK, Chinese, Thai, and Indian film industry crews shooting in Thailand. Consequently he served as a stand-in, body-double, and sometimes photo-double, for tall leading men John Cusack, Jean Reno, David Thewlis, and Bradley Cooper who were filming on-location in Thailand.Fahl’s U.S. TV debut was his speaking role on Hawaii Five-0 (TV series 2010- ) directed by Bryan Spicer in September 2016 as “CIA Guard 3″”. His feature film debut was his speaking role as arms trafficker “”Reed”” in Madras Cafe (2013) after several non-speaking roles, e.g., Navy medic “”Doc”” in Oba: The Last Samurai (2011), and U.S. Marine “”Barnie Barnes”” on the Military Channel’s war-documentary series Ultimate Warfare (TV series 2012- ).”
Steve Fahl
Movies
Madras Cafe
An Indian Intelligence agent (portrayed by John Abraham)[9] journeys into a war torn coastal island, to break a resolute rebel group. He deftly maneuvers his resources to make significant breakthroughs, amidst a scenario where the enemy has no face and the only counsel is ‘Don’t get caught.’ At various junctions,…
Fun Facts
Fahl is multilingual, performs speaking roles in various languages, and splits his time between residences in Thailand and Hawaii.
Steve Fahl has lived, attended universities, volunteered, and served as an actor in over 16 countries.
He worked as a Disaster Victim Identification volunteer for the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and for the Royal Thai Government's Central Institute for Forensic Sciences in Thailand identifying badly decomposed corpses of over a hundred international tourists killed in the 2014 Asian Tsunami.
Graduated in 2018 from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia, USA, where he completed courses on U.S. homegrown violent extremism, terrorism, and aviation security for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
Fahl, a longtime resident of Bangkok, was mistaken for The 2015 Bangkok Bomber, is subsequently tabloid fodder for conspiracy-theory websites, and was dubbed a false-flag operative of Israel and the CIA by blogs and tabloid news in the U.S., Asia and Europe.